Round 7 Pleasantview - Caliente

This is the original Caliente lot, yes the girls have managed to stay together in it, even though there is an extreme shortage of beds.  This is handled three ways: Sleeping is done on a rotational basis, the Pepper Punch drink is made in the juicer to keep energy up, or the energizer is used to keep going.


Dina Caliente

Fortune - Have 6 pets reach TOC

Dina has already met her LTW twice, but is doing it again as ASimWen has never achieved this LTW.  She has two pet TOCs to go.  Dina is a perm plat 69 year old.

Nina Caliente

Romance - Become a Game Designer

Like Dina, Nina has reached her LTW twice.She has had three children,  Oldest - George with Daniel Pleasant.  Second - John with Don Lothario.  And then there is the youngest Margaret with the only man she married - Mark Landchild.  Mark has already passed on.  Nina is 69 years old and is perm plat.

Debbie Johnston and George Caliente

Debbie - Fortune - Become Business Tycoon

George - Fortune - Become City Planner

George met with the matchmaker who conjured up three bolt Debbie for him as he was too shy in University to deal much with women.  George already won a TOC and LTW last round by becoming a Business Tycoon.  He is perm plat.  Debbie is not, so she will be lots of fun to play.

Debbie's first wishes:  Get a promotion, make money, go on vacation, and talk about hobbies.

Margaret Caliente

Romance - WooHoo with 20 Sims

Margaret is a pure joy to play.   She was a very happy child even though she was surrounded by nothing but adults.  She has shown little interest in University and probably will not go unless things change this round.  She wants to be like her mother, a wonderful Romance Sim.  She ages up in 11 Sim days.

Maggie's first wishes:  Be best friends with Arthur Tellerman, go to University, get Creativity 1, and go out with townie Jess Knight.

What are the Calientes up to? First, here is what happened last round, way back in February of 2014. *WOW*  The cats Andy and Minnie both aged to senior each achieved 2 TOC for a total of 4 towards Dina's LTW.  Over their lifetime they contributed thirteen kittens to the Pleasantview pet pool.  They will have their Grim party this round, leaving the dog Maxx as the only pet in the house.  He was wished for last round.  Dina gained the hobby plaque in Nature, and gave lessons in Nature to Margaret.  George met his LTW of becoming a Business Tycoon and became perm plat.  And, he fell hopelessly in love with Debbie.  Nina did not get much screen time, she worked as family support.  Margaret was the screen hog having dated many neighborhood boys.

Let's get on with it!

MONDAY

Right away Andy had his Grim party.  Buh-bye Andy.  Maxx the doggo had no thoughts about it as he didn't know Andy well, but Andy's mate Minnie cried and cried.

Margaret made a bad decision about marbles at school.  It cost her.

Oops!

Debbie was promoted at work on Monday.  This realized the wish to get promoted, pouring 2,000 aspiration points into the coffers.  Go you, Debbie!

After finishing up her homework, Maggie fulfilled the "get a creativity skill point" and continued it for the rest of the evening.  Well, being autumn, yes, skills are the thing to do.  Spring/summer was over, it would be a surprise if she threw wishes to date.  But who knows?  Maybe she will?

Debbie:  I got a promotion at work today George! 

George:  Aww that's great Deb!  

 Debbie threw a wish to dance after the job promotion.  George was more than happy to oblige.  That was replaced with the Fortune Sim "buy me buy me" wishes...a game costing $3,000...ect.  All stashed in her backpack to be sold back tomorrow.  Then she wished...

To make a wish.  Gypsy lady had been by and left behind a shiny lamp...ASimWen misssed it.  Deb wished for money of course.

Tuesday

It was Minnie's day.  Nina cried and cried.  Whereas Dina had spent lots of time in the garden, Nina spent time with the pets.  All the cat items on the lot were disposed of, and then it was all about Maxx the dog.

Nina found fun and laughter teaching Maxx the Play Dead command.  After all, he neeeded to skill up too since he would be getting a job soon.

Maggie did her homework, then hit the easel to continue working up that creativity which she still kept wishes for.  Yes, she could have used the gadget Debbie got at work to get the creativity she wanted, the Lie Detector, but she also wished to sell a mesterpeice. Painting it was!

Ah.  Painting helped her to earn a membership to My Muse Art Studio.  She was very happy!

Wednesday

Maggie painted all night long.  In the wee hours Nina gave Maggie some pointers in Creativity, pushing Mag's skills over the top to maxing skills.  Mother and daughter team!

Later that day...

Great!  Debbie's desired career came up online!  She decided to leave her life of crime behind her and grabbed it!

Debbie and George celebrated by having a little huggy body kissy face.  :)

Teen-aged love - Maggie and Albert

After school Maggie finally threw a wish to ask a Sim out on a date.  She wished for romance out of the Wishing Well and was brought Albert Goth.  Oh my.  Another three bolt match in the Caliente household!  Albert is smitten with Maggie.  Get your mind off her boy, you are a dedicated Family Sim while she is a Romance Sim who wants to woohoo 20!

George and Debbie now carpool to work together since they are in the same field.  Debbie received a promotion her very first day at work.

Debbie needed both creativity and charisma for her job in business.  George was more than happy to oblige in her training.  Here training is done on both the Lie  Detector and the Execuputter at the same time.

No not like that...

 Thursday

Having sent Albert home, Maggie goes to work picking the last of the apples and lemons before winter set in.  She earns her silver badge in gardening.  Go you, Mags!

Bertha Wilkie came home on the bus with Maggie.  She is the daughter of plantsim Silver Maple Wilkie and Brittany (Upsnot) Wilkie.  Margaret made a fast friend with "Talk About Hobby" and gossipping...

In fact Bertha thought so much of Maggie she delivered a stereo to the Caliente family. haha

Debbie had the day off from work and spent the day sleeping as she had skilled all night with George.  When he came home from work they chilled talking about their upcoming wedding and were thinking about buying a vacation home as a wedding gift to themselves.  (she throws constant wishes).

Saturday

Saturday was a big day.  So much happened.

Just after midnight Saturday morning, Maggie threw "get a skill point" wish.  Older brother George was on hand to help out with mechanical skill.  Brother and sister time at it's best.

Maxing mechanical coincided with getting a membership card to the secret science club Aspirational Laboratories.  It was amazing.

The most important thing though, that happened on Saturday-

It was George and Debbie's wedding day.

The wedding was held inside due to the cold air Mother Nature was dolling outside.  ASimWen didn't want everyone switching into their coats for the ceremony.

Yummy cake!

So who came to this shindig?

Left to right - Mary (Pleasant) Caliente, George and Maggie's brother John Caliente, he is married to Mary.  His daddy is Don Lothario.

Left to right - Frank Dreamer (mom and dad is Dirk and Nichole Dreamer) to the far right is WillIam Dreamer, who is all alone now in Goth Manor.  All of these guys...George, John, Frank and William were college buddies.  It was great for them to get together again.

Who is this guy???  *ASimWen squints at the tiny yellow name tag*.  Irfam Lam???  Oooohhh...He's the butler.  Apparently he grows a quick 'fro when he switches out of his buttling tux and into a regular suit.

The wedding party was a roof raiser, everyone had a great time.  It was nice getting George and Debbie married.  The evening was topped off for the happy couple with a marital woohoo.  Not their first, but first as husband and wife.

Not sure when this outing happened, although I have a vague memory of it.  She dropped off this 'scope after all the party goers left.  It was stashed into Maggie's backpack.

A burgler came by early Sunday morning, but luckily the Pleasantview police nabbed him before he had a chance to take anything.  It made for unpleasant thoughts for everyone for a while.

Sunday

Sunday morning breakfast together as a family.  Nina had worked the night before so slept through it.  ASimWen has a weakness for Sim family meal pictures.

Oh no.  ASimWen had the sound turned off and did not know there was chimes on the honeymoon night.  Thank you Risky WooHoo.

After the pregnancy excitement Maggie decided she wanted to try to win a dancing contest so off to the dance studio she went.

REALLY???  Komie Tellerman won?????  Margaret was so disgusted she drove back home.  She could most certainly do better with a nice date today.  And threw the wish.

Romance Sim Arthur Tellerman (Komie's son) fit the bill.  Maggie and Arthur are another 3 bolt match.  Art brought Maggie right back into a good mood, filling her wishes for the day.

In the meanwhile, Debbie threw the wish *again* for a vacation home.

She had also thrown various wishes through the week for a vacation to the Orient.

It made perfect sense to get a vacation home there.  However since Debbie is pregnant they will not be going this round.

And now we have circled back around to Monday morning with Debbie headed to the refrigerator while everyone else sleeps.

Ending wishes for non plat Sims:

Maggie - Ask Sim on date, dance smustle, talk about hobbies and meet someone new.

Debbie - Throw football (her given hobby is sports), talk about hobby, dance smustle, workout on the workout machine

What I found interesting was that unlike other lots with pets, no one was throwing constant wishes to do things with the pets.  There was the occasional "Maxx gets a job" from the Fortune Sims.  Once Maxx got a job in Showbiz there were no more wishes.  No commanding Maxx around, ect.  That was refreshing for ASimWen.

Odd Pics Out:

Margaret did much more dating than mentioned.  She constantly threw wishes and the wishing well made it easy to get her 5 wishes in for the day.

Townie Amar Walter

Townie Connor Dawn

Hauntings

Andy the Cat

Nina's husband Mark Landchild

Dina's husband Michael Bachelor

And that is it for the Calientes for Round 7! Round 8 will bring the passing of the Caliente sisters, It remains to be seen if Maxx will be able to get through two TOC before Dina goes. This will open up lots of room in the condo.


Thank you for reading! Next chapter: Brandi Broke!


~ASimWen